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/ page 395 of 1205 /I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.
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We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
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To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
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All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.
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Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
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You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
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Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
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You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
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Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.
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Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
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Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.
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I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.
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He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
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Love is only one of many passions.
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
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